Comenius
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Our
school has been accepted for a Comenius 1 school project, under the Socrates program
(a European Community action programme). A
Comenius school project aims to enhance the European dimension of education
by promoting transnational cooperation between schools within the E.U. The
project gives pupils and teachers from participating countries an opportunity
to work together during regular class activities. The
title of our school project is “Growing the European Garden” and the
countries participating are France, Germany, Finland, Poland and Northern
Ireland. The project will extend over three years from Sept 2004-June 2007.
Over the course of the project we will use the theme of the garden to look at
the growing year, foods we grow and eat, weather influences and care of our
environment etc. During this three-year period we hope that all children will
have an opportunity to get involved. The
links that we establish with our partner countries will help us to better
understand and appreciate their language, culture and traditions. We will
make maximum use of Information Technology in developing and maintaining
these close links. Three
teachers from our school are traveling to a project meeting in Paris at the
end of October. There they will sit down with teachers from all our partner
countries and map out the course of activities for the coming year. |
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